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TRAVEL ADVISORY: CORRESPONDENT'S REPORT;An English Legoland

By PAMELA KENT

Published: March 10, 1996

Scenes from Amsterdam, Edinburgh and Paris rendered in little plastic bricks will be one of the attractions of the Legoland theme park scheduled to open on March 29 near Windsor, about 20 miles west of London. The 150-acre park is based on the Legoland that opened in Denmark in 1968.

Five main activity centers will be interspersed with quiet areas. The Imagination Center is the focal point of the park, where visitors can experiment with uncounted numbers of Lego bricks. Miniland, where the city scenes are, uses 25 million Lego bricks to create 800 buildings and 700 models of trains, cars, ships, people, bridges and fountains.

Duplo Gardens has a puppet theater and boat rides along the Fairy Tale Brook, which meanders past scenes from "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood" and other classics. Children can learn to drive in electric cars at the driving school or to fly in a Whirly Bird Helicopter.

An area called My Town has life-sized buildings grouped around a harbor and jungles and ice caves for visitors to walk through, as well as Brickadilly's Circus and Fairground, where children can paint their faces, dress up as clowns, try out trick bicycles or walk a high wire.

Wild Woods has a treasure trail and three "amazing mazes."

There will be five restaurants, among them a pirates' restaurant and one called Pasta Patch.

Legoland is on the B3022 Bracknell/Ascot road, which is well-marked from the main highways: M4, M25, M40, M3. A shuttle bus will operate from Windsor's two train stations.

Open daily from April to September and the week of Oct. 21, weekends in October. Although the park's capacity is estimated at over 10,000, a ticket reservation service has been established to prevent long lines and overcrowding. Admission: $24; children $19 ($1.60 less when tickets are ordered in advance). For reservations and information: 1753 62 63 64; from within Britain (0 990) 62 63 64. PAMELA KENT

Photo: The Tower Bridge in the Miniland area of Legoland. (LegolandWindsor)

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